HISPASAT will present its new 4K America TV channel during the NAB Conference held in Las Vegas

April 4, 2014

The "HISPASAT 4K" channel, which is already operational in Europe, will begin transmissions covering Central and North America.

The operator will also once also be present in the event's conferences, with a talk on boosting Ultra High Definition technologies.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, will present its TV channel “HISPASAT 4K” during the 2014 NAB Conference held in Las Vegas from April 7 to 10. Its content will be aired openly from the Amazonas satellite 3 in the scope of its coverage of Central and North America. The satellite operator thus validates its commitment to the distribution of Ultra High Definition (UHD) - or 4K- technology, in which HISPASAT is pioneer, with demonstrable experience in Europe; it has been broadcasting UHD contents there since September of 2013, when its European 4K channel was presented in the IBC Conference in Amsterdam.

HISPASAT's Client Engineering department will also be represented in the conferences organized within the scope of this event, with a talk titled “4K Arrives! A Perspective from a Real UHDTV Broadcasting Experience,” which will take place on Wednesday, April 9, in the Convention Center. The Las Vegas NAB Conference attracts over 100,000 visitors from over160 countries involved in the audiovisual telecommunications sector, who engage in debates and present advances in technology.